Fishing-reel



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FISHING REEL. No. 397,198. Patented Feb. 5. 1889.

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FISHING REEL.

No. 397,198. Patented Feb. 5, 1889.

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' UNTTED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST F. MEISSELBACII AND VILLIAM MEISSELBACH', OF NEIVARK, NElVJERSEY.

FISHING-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 397,198, dated February5, 1889.

Application filed October 27, 188B. $erial No. 289,322. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, AUGUST F. lllElssEL- BACH and WILLIAM MEISSELBACH,both citi- Zens of the United States, residing at Newark,

Essex county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Fishing-Reels, fully described and represented in thefollowing specification and the accompanyin g drawings, forming a partof the same.

The object of this invention is to provide a drag which may be sooperated as to partially or wholly stopthe movement of the reel at thewill of the operator when casting the bait, and also to furnish aconstant brake for the reel when desired.

The invention consists partly in the combination, with the spool, of ayielding band encircling the edges of the same and adapted to be pressedinto contact therewith, and partly in an auxiliary braking deviceadapted to be disengaged at pleasure.

Heretofore a regulated braking device for use in casting the bait hasbeen formed .by providing the thumb of the operator with a thumb-stall,which was pressed directly upon the line wound upon the reel. As theline was always necessarily wound somewhat unevenly and presented anuneven surface for the thumb-stall to press against, a perfectly uniformpressure (and therefore a uniform resistance) upon the reel was notattainable with the use of such device.

In our invention, as the rim of the reel or spool to which the drag isapplied is perfectly round and even, it is evident that a constant oruniformly-inereasing pressure can be readily applied thereto at the willof the operator to retard or to entirely stop the rotation of the reel.

I11 order to avoid the necessity of applying the brake constantly to thereel to prevent the line from unwinding after the bait is properlythrown, we have devised an auxiliary braking device adapted to be throwninto contact with the reel, and which exerts a continuous pressurethereon while the principal brake or drag is disengaged.

In the annexed drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of the butt-end of afishing-rod having a reel embodying our invention secured thereon, therod being shown in the hand of the operator. Fig. 2 is an elevation ofthe opposite side of the spool from that shown in Fig.

l, drawn full size; and Fig. 3, a vertical transverse section of thesame. Fig. 4 is a detached view of the spool, and Fig. 5 an oblique viewof the combined drag and guard attached to the shoe or base of the reel.Figs. 4 and 5 are on a still larger scale than Figs. 2 and 3.

A is the fishing-rod, and a the base or shoe of the reel secured theretoin the usual manner.

I) is a post projecting from one side of the base a and forming thesupport for the reel proper or spool c by means of the stud (1 securedtherein.

e is the drag formed of a strip of hard or spring sheet metal toencircle the edges of the spool c and in a ring of alittle greaterdiameter than the periphery of the spool. In order to permit the freepassage of the air to the line in drying the same, when wound upon thesame, we cut out the middle portion of the sheet-metal strip or bandcomposing the drag, leaving merely two narrow rims adjacent to the edgesof the cheek-pieces of the spool, with cross-pieces e to tie the sametogether.

In Fig. 1 the drag is shown pressed into its 0perative position by thethumb of the operator, which rests against one of the cross-pieces 6,thus throwing the side nearest the thumb into contact with the peripheryof the spool and its opposite side a corresponfi ing amount farther fromthe periphery of the spool.

It will be seen that the construction of the drag as above describedrenders it equally serviceable as a guard for preventing the tangling ofthe line when slack with the other parts of the reel.

we have shown the drag herein as applied to a single-action reel; but itis evidently as readily adapted for application to a multiplier, and wedo not therefore limit ourselves to any particular form of reel to whichit may be applied.

Our auxiliary braking device or drag c'onsists in an outwardly-bentleaf-spring, 8, applied to the outer side of the post Z), being securedat one end to the top of such post by means of the stud (Z, and havingat its free end a pin, 1), projecting inwardly therefrom and I00 throughan aperture near the base of the post toward the spool. The spring isbent so as to press the pin 1) inwardly into contact with thecheek-piece of the spool nearest it. To prevent l'llOGOlllElllllOllSengagement oi". the inner end of the pin with the spool, we form a slot,0, in the spring near its free end, having a sliding button, I),therein. This button is so eonstrueted and proportioned that when at oneend of the slot its inner side will not touch the side of the post (I,and the pin 1.; will be allowed to engage with the side of the spool v,as shown in full lines in Fig. 3; but when moved to the opposite end olthe slot the free end of the spring will be retraetml, thuswithdrawingthe pin 1), as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3.

It is evident that by bowling the spring in a slightly-(iit'lerentmanner from that shown in the drawings the elt'ectot the niovenientofthe button a in the slot 0 might be made to produce the reverse effectfrom that produced by the arrangenumt shown herein. Thus it the pin 1)were made a little longer and the spring bent so that its free end werefarthest away from the post (I the movement of the button away from thepin, 1.) would disengage the pin from the spool (1, and a eorres nindingmovement of the button toward the pin would serve to throw the latterin\\'ard into contact with the spool. '0 do not therefore limitourselves to the lmrtieular form to which the spring is bent.

It is obvious that the form ol the Sllllpfll'il for the SDOOl-Stlltl isentirely inumrterial to our I invention, which is wholly iinlependent olthe i construction of the other pin-ts oi the reel. 1

We are aware of United. Slates Patent No. llflrfll, showing a dragoperated bythethuinb; l

but our invention ditfers from the same in consisting in an elasticcylindrical shell, serving as a guard for the spool, as well as a dragor brake. '0 are also aware of United States atents Nos. 2%,14'7 and318,190; but in the constructions shown therein the spring operating asa drag is unprovided with a slothaving a lnltton sliding therein tothrow the drag into and out of. contact with the spool, as in ourconstruction. "0 hereby disclaim the said patents.

Having thus set forth the nature of our invention, what we claim herein,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a fishing-reel, the combination, with the spool, of a combineddrag and guard, consisting in a yielding cylindrical shell eneirclin theflanges of the spoohwith its in not face ad jaeent to their periphmries,and adapted, when pressed by the operator, to make a frict-ional contactwith the rotating flanges, sub stantially as shown and described.

In a fishing-reel, the eombii'latiou, with the supprn't ot' thespool-stud and the spool, of" the leaf-spring s, secured at one end tothe said support, and having at its opposite end an inwardly-projectingpin, p, the said spring being provided with a slot, o,having a slidingbutton therein and inclined in relation to the said support for thespool-stud, as andtor the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in tho presenoeot'twosubscribing witnesses.

AUGUSJ l IMEISSELBACH. WILLIAM MEISSELBACH. Witnesses: L. LEE, .II. J.lllILLER.

